Well, I have been using Winderz ME Internet sharing and 
have 6 computers running off of that for sometime now.  
I have had no problems to date.  If she as a pc laying 
around, she could do that quite easily.  Of course, a 
Linux distro would be prefreble for this!
--
Doug
doughanson at attbi.com
"In your cubicle no one
can hear you scream"
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:06:09AM -0500, Erik Hanson wrote:
> > I have attbi and I like their service.  They do have a "Home
> > Networking" option that will allow you to get 3 total ip's for an
> > extra $10 a month (not fixed IPs) but that does not sound like
> > enough for her. 
> 
> How do they control that?  How do they limit 3 DHCP IP's to a
> household?  The only way I can think of is to limit them by MAC.
> 
> > If she does not want to build her own router, she will need to get
> > one of the off the shelf solutions from linksys or netgear or
> > whatever.
> 
> Anyone care to pipe in with equipment recommendations?  Presumably a
> router with NAT & DHCP on one side, and capable of picking up a DHCP
> IP address on the other?  An internal firewall on the device would be
> a plus.
> 
> -- 
> Scott Raun
> sraun at fireopal.org
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